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The Silent Film Comedian Whose Corpse Was Stolen and Held for Ransom

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01.12.2025
On Christmas morning in 1977, silent film icon Charlie Chaplin died at the age of 88. After a private funeral two days later, he was buried at the Corsier-sur-Vevey cemetery in Switzerland, the country where he had been living since 1952. Ordinarily, that’s where a story like this would come to an end. Unfortunately, as […] The post The Silent Film Comedian Whose Corpse Was Stolen and Held for Ransom appeared first on VICE.

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